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Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.
Leopold Kronecker
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Leopold Kronecker
Age: 68 †
Born: 1823
Born: December 7
Died: 1891
Died: December 29
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Liegnitz
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What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist?
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Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gatt gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk. The dear God has made the whole numbers, all the rest is man's work.
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